The project, one of the largest domestic gas assets in Nigeria, located in Imo state, southeast Nigeria, has capacity for 300 million standard cubic feet of gas per day when completed
Oil giant, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), has
mobilised workers and returned to site after two years of putting on hold
construction work of the multi-billion naira Assa North/Ohaji South Gas
Development Project in Ohaji/Egbema Council of Imo State.
Shell had temporarily halted the construction of a multi-
billion naira Assa North/ Ohaji South Gas Development Project which was started
in 2019, due to the growing incidents of insecurity in the area.
The General Manager (Security) of SPDC, Bob Buss, leading
other officials of the company, disclosed this yesterday during his official
visit to the Commissioner for Homeland Security and Vigilante Affairs, Dr.
Okechukwu Ugorji, in Owerri.
The SPDC had, in 2019, performed the ground-breaking of the
project with a potential capacity of 300 million standard cubic feet of gas per
day, one of the largest domestic gas projects in Nigeria.
The initial completion projection was put at 2023, but was
put on hold in 2021, following security breaches, which led to the killing of
persons in the area by suspected cult members, among other unwholesome
disturbances by the locals.
As a result of putting on hold the construction work, over
980 employment opportunities and 2,612 sub- contracting chances, valued at N1.6
billion were affected, according to earlier disclosure made in Owerri by the
Head, Corporate Relations and Director of SPDC, Igo Weli, some weeks ago, while
briefing journalists from Imo and Abia states.
Buss told the Commissioner that the company needed to be
reassured by the state government with security plan for the construction and
other workers to work optimally.
The Shell official said the company is ready to partner with
state government to actualise the goal, stressing that they were in the state
to discuss plans on how to protect the company’s assets and mitigate security
challenges during their operations in the state.
Responding, Ugorji said the state government is willing to
welcome them and work in synergy to protect both human and material resources.
He assured: “The corridor is of great economic, security,
educational and political importance to Governor Hope Uzodimma.
“The state government would do all it could to give Shell and its workers the confidence to be fully operational.”
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